报告题目：Catalysis and energy
报告人：Prof David Rooney
Director of CenTACat, Queen's University Belfast
报告时间：2014-11-20（周四）上午10：00-12：00
报告地点：图书馆中心会议室
报告内容：
One of the biggest challenges with electrical grids using large amounts of renewable energy is the intermittent nature of the power. This often leads to 'feast or famine' situations thereby necessitating advanced energy storage technology. An alternative method is to use any excess energy is in the manufacture of chemicals. Examples include the ammonia production or synthetic methane. This talk will demonstrate the potential for using excess energy for the reforming of bio-gas mixtures. Furthermore it will demonstrate how understanding the catalytic cycle can allow for greater methane utilisation.
报告人简介：
David Rooney is the professor of Chemical Engineering in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. He is also Director of Research (CenTACat), member of the IChemE. Dr. David’s primary research areas: Heterogeneous catalysis, engineering of Ionic Liquid processes and thermophysical property prediction, energy capture and storage, Anaerobic digestion gas processing.